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What to Teach When There Isn’t Time to Teach Everything
Faculty have always faced time constraints when planning their courses, but the Information Age is now making it even harder to decide what to cover in a semester. Get advice on what to include, and what you can safely disregard, as you write their syllabi and plan your busy semesters.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Using MP3s as a Teaching Tool for College English Classes
My recent foray into using MP3s to teach college level English classes came out of my need to reach more of my non-traditional students. I saw a trend developing where more adults than ever were seeking a college education or even returning to college to change careers, and it only followed that I had a responsibility as an instructor to try and reach these students. It also became apparent in my classroom that I wanted to not only reach, but to retain these non-traditional students who seemed to become easily frustrated with the more traditional lecture and textbook methods.
Going Beyond Office Hours to Improve Student Learning
Two of the big buzzwords in higher education are “student engagement” and “teacher effectiveness.” One way to address these intertwined issues is to improve the quality of student-teacher interactions both inside and outside the classroom.
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: The Benefits of Humor in the Classroom
The contribution that humor makes to student learning is well established in research. It is not that humor causes learning; rather, it helps to create conditions conducive to learning. It helps learners relax, alleviates stress, and often makes it easier for students and teachers to connect personally. The presence of humor in a classroom can
Do You Don a ‘Teaching Mask’ as You Head to the Classroom?
That persona we don when standing before students is what Jay Parini refers to as a “teaching mask.” “What I want to suggest here is that teachers…need to invent and cultivate a voice, one that serves their personal needs as well as the material at hand, one that feels authentic. It should also take into
Concept Mapping Improves Student Learning
Donna Saulsberry was in a bind. As an associate professor of computer and information technology at Doña Ana Community College, one of her jobs is to prepare her networking students for the Microsoft® Certified Systems Engineer certification test. Having survived a Microsoft certification boot camp herself, she began instructing her students in much the same way as she was taught: lecture, practice, and multiple choice tests.
